World

“100 Ways to See Transgender” Exhibition Shares a Wide Range of Transgender Experiences

by

This past weekend, over 200 participants came to see the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights’ (TAPCPR) "看見跨性別藝文展 100 Ways to See Transgender" exhibition at 二空間 SPACE TWO. Since their first Transgender Film Festival in 2020, TAPCPR has made it a tradition to do larger scale public engagement programming around transgender issues every year in the month of November. Last year was the second Transgender Film Festival, and this year is the 100 Ways to See Transgender exhibition

From No Man Is an Island
On November 11, 2022
Categories

Our Haunted Apartment in Montreal

by

twenty years on, the author reflects on being trapped in a vortex of dark energy

From Popula
On October 5, 2022
Categories

Risking Your Life to Get to School

by

increasing abductions on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway

From Popula
On September 29, 2022
Categories

Meet the New Wolf, Giorgia Meloni

by

the center-left who cried wolf

From Popula
On September 27, 2022
Categories

MELODRAMA-RAMA: ABSORBING DELIGHT

by

The Telugu film RRR is an incredible mixture of genres, influences, and ideas: a historical epic with obvious ahistorical qualities, a combat-heavy actioner with exuberant song-and-dance numbers, a homosocial friendship drama with recognizably romantic montages. Strong notes of melodrama accent its potent blend.

From Tasteful Rude
On September 20, 2022
Categories

The Death of Diana Spencer

by

25 years of public mourning

From Popula
On August 31, 2022
Categories

Corporate Media: Stop Taking Fossil Fuel Money

by

a long-overdue reckoning

From Popula
On July 6, 2022
Categories

What Would “Cultural Sovereignty” Mean for Taiwan in an Age of Digital Media?

by

Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te made comments at the recent National Culture Congress earlier this month that might strike as somewhat unusual.

From No Man Is an Island
On June 22, 2022
Categories

Questions for My Ailing Country

by

A young police officer is standing with a woman I assume to be his mother. She is praying for him loudly, at a major junction on the streets of a Lagos suburb; speaking in tongues unashamedly while passers-by stare, some in admiration, others, not so much.

From Olongo Africa
On June 27, 2022
Categories

I took a tricycle to the hospital

by

I hardly leave my house, but I had to go there; I was going abroad and needed to be double vaxxed before traveling.

From Popula
On June 2, 2022
Categories

A Nigerian Poet’s Dangerous Amorous Episodes

by

In the traditions that established earlier voices in modern Africa poetry, sociopolitical maladies have remained an arch theme. In the words of Omafune Onoge, what rocks African poetry most is the crisis of consciousness.

From Olongo Africa
On May 24, 2022
Categories

The West Sees the World

by

on transnational media and the war in Ukraine

From Popula
On April 25, 2022
Categories

Not A Laafin Matter: Lamidi Ọláyíwọlá Àtàndá Adéyẹmí (1938-2022)

by

When news broke late on 22nd April 2022, that Ọba Ọláyíwọlá Adéyẹmí III, the Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́, had joined his ancestors at the ripe old age of 83, there was a sense in the entire Yorùbá speaking world that a truly regnant king had departed the realm.

From Olongo Africa
On April 25, 2022
Categories